Salamone Rossi

Life

Born: 19 August 1570?

Died: 1630?

Biography Rossi was hired as a musician of the Mantuan court in 1587; the table of contents of his [19] Canzonette of 1589 forms the acrostic VIVAT S R, from which it is conjectured he might have been 19 years old on the day of publication. He disappears from the record after the start the War of the Mantuan Succession (1628–31) and may have perished in the sack of July 1530 or the in the ensuing plague.

His one collection of Hebrew motets Hashirim asher leSholomo (1522-3) alludes to his name, none of the texts being from the actual 'Song of Solomon'.